00:23:16assbot:Logged on 20-08-2015 23:11:28; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2015#1245604 << actually a dr-dos version would be pretty cool. in fact i would guess an attempt to write private bitcoinfs and make dr-dos check blocks and an attempt to ada-bitcoin would necessarily end with a very similar if not outright identical product.

00:23:16assbot:Logged on 20-08-2015 18:34:05; ascii_field: at any rate, msdos provides not one single system call that could be of use to a bitcoind

00:23:16assbot:Logged on 20-08-2015 18:34:19; ascii_field: so a 'dos port' is more appropriately a 'bare metal' port, and doesn't need the dos for anything

00:32:10jurov:"What kind of terrible offense must one commit in their past life to be reborn as a trickster god's cruel experiment: a living work of sadistic irony possessing the visual acuity of a hawk, the palate of a dung beetle, and the agency of a mollusk."

00:44:55trinque:asciilifeform | jurov: why long, set up a dos box, enjoy the maxint games which were maxint times better than anything available today. << /me wishes to see asciilifeform's DOS game list, as I was too young to truly appreciate the era

00:50:26mircea_popescu:well heck, how is it my fault nature doesn't fit their projections ffs.

00:50:42BingoBoingo:But she was being so unreasonable that it helped my cause. When I told the cops that I slipped the nelson on her they were congratulatory. The one cop says, ?Really, man, you used the nelson? Way to go?that?s the best thing for women who are trying to hit you!?

00:54:07mircea_popescu:in fact, the only actual attention orwell has, at any point, enjoyed, is in the fringe of 1984 afficionados, which suddenly saw itself bitcoinized into relevancy cca 2010. otherwise...

00:54:22asciilifeform:mircea_popescu: considering that c died while mr o was a grunt in spain and had total of what, 100 pgs, printed

01:03:22mircea_popescu:yaya. because apparently "there's six million idiots with nothing better to do on the web".

01:03:30asciilifeform:why can't herr luther do whatever the fuck he wants with the ink that he bought with the paper that he bought....

01:03:46mircea_popescu:some objectionable twerp is proud about how she's teaching some unfortunate nigglets to "Talk trash" about random strangers,

01:03:59mircea_popescu:and not only isn't she fired for this, but somehow "the community" thinks this is sane.

01:04:15mircea_popescu:i'd fire her. she wants to teach the kids to talk trash about random people, that's what lincoln is for.

01:05:52mircea_popescu:anyway, it'd seem the fact that rape doesn't work in nature liek reddit wants it to is becoming a much bigger problem reddit has with mp than merely the fact that money doesn't work in nature like reddit wants it to.

01:06:57mircea_popescu:"I'd say he has completely lost the plot at this stage. He was calling bitcoinXT an altcoin long before it was even suggested. I can't imagine what's going through his mind right now given that I could imagine the completely fucked up shit that was happening before." << if anyone has a reddit to english translation service, please help.

01:07:08mircea_popescu:somehow the words fail to sentence. what's the man trying to say ?

01:12:57assbot:Logged on 28-07-2014 21:25:42; mircea_popescu: A CS student named Lin had a prick the size of a pin. It was no good for girls but just great for squirrels, they squealed with delight with it in.

01:19:20mircea_popescu:What strikes me in all these IRC convos involving butters is that they are not talking. This is not a conversation. They say shit past each other. No one listens, no one responds, they're just on some dumbass tirade for no purpose."

01:29:00phf:james lafond incidentally wrote how old time pubs were places were men could run wild boasts by the others and get called out or not, and that this form of conversation has been lost. seems to me in "consensus" places there's always some fuck ready to butt in into any point, just to make a counterpoint, that it's inconceivable for redditards that there's a dozen reading and thinking without running their mouths

01:29:35mircea_popescu:at the very least it survives in the better prep classes for lawschool.

01:29:52asciilifeform:it survives (in anglo world) like panda survives. in a zoo or two.

01:30:34mircea_popescu:what has happened however was a shear (ie, kill the middle). there is no point in carnation lower class men should be engaging in this sport, that's not in any sense their place. not like a random blue collar derp can, through no matter how liberal application of port and tavern-debate, become an engineer.

01:38:51phf:mircea_popescu: i think the idea was imprinted on me through soviet imagery still, of a young pioneer politely and carefully observing an older pioneer performing some tricky task, soldering say. the implication was "this old person, knows better, so shut the fuck up and learn"

01:44:51asciilifeform:'More important, I looked through some of the Gnulib and GNU utilities code that deals with working around bugs in GCC's diagnostics generation, and -Wmaybe-uninitialized in particular has caused us so much grief that we typically silence it in a different way, which I should mention. We use a macro definition like this:' << holy fuq.

01:45:37asciilifeform:is there a patient on this operating table at all? or just four-limbed tumour mass ?

01:46:58phf:hehe, i was going to make a ~joke~ with the description of how if_lint operates, turns out that's how it actually operates.

01:47:32asciilifeform:this horror went past the point of being recoverable, long, long ago.

01:47:51BingoBoingo:<asciilifeform> is there a patient on this operating table at all? or just four-limbed tumour mass ? << Seven limbed actually. You neglected several long tumors have calcified bone like structures

01:49:07asciilifeform:and before BingoBoingo says 'bsd' - i will point out that ~all~ of this crap has long metastatized to bsd

02:53:16mod6:another crazy thing is this BDB configure script. i got rotor to build on i686 with TEST2. but the crazy thing is that it seems to compile just fine when BDB has --host=x86_64-linux OR --host=i386-linux but NOT without a --host=<SOMETHING>

03:08:13assbot:Logged on 20-08-2015 02:09:25; mircea_popescu: anyway, notice the word wizardry. "if there is full credit card data in a dump, it?s not from us". whereas the dump clearly and pointedly states "some credit card data".

03:08:35ben_vulpes:and five minutes later, found the commit wherein previous slaves had "fixed tests"

03:13:09ben_vulpes:<asciilifeform> (for those mythical ben_vulpess who read only ml but not #b-a) << may you experience many mild unpleasantnesses

03:14:28ben_vulpes:http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2015#1244973 << on another client thinger recently i saw a pull request that replaced naive iteration through the list of files as provided by the ruby fs abstraction with an iteration over a hand-curated list of files because "differences between linux and os x"

03:14:28assbot:Logged on 20-08-2015 03:18:03; asciilifeform: srsly there is no end to the retardation of linux

03:49:29mircea_popescu:(also let me mention here, as this may come as a suprirse to my western friends - that in romanian classical society, as well as for that matter most of eastern europe, as well as for that matter all of europe in an earlier, simpler time - it was the height of poor taste for a woman to refuse sexual congress, and a pointed declaration of personal infirmity. sort-of like saying you can't read without your glasses

03:58:42mircea_popescu:fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cassation. and was sea

04:57:29BingoBoingo:<mats> lots became firefighters after, to chase the thrill << The one part of the Nordic system that works always. Once people get hooked on the thrill you don't have to pay them in anything other than opportunity to continue.

04:58:06mats:welp, the way building codes makes shit safer, you just end up jerking off in the firehouse or starting a business on the job

05:10:15assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 04:56:04; mircea_popescu: "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh, give back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast... keep it now, and take the rest! Hear my vow before I go, ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ."

05:51:29mircea_popescu:this thing is only notable because the guy is exactly correct in what he says. but he's easily the least frequentable name in romanian politics, short of actual mental cases. and this not in a good way - he truly is reprehensible.

05:51:52mircea_popescu:how this shit works, where truth only ends up spoken by the thoroughly disgraced, is my favourite mystery of nature.

05:52:24mircea_popescu:for as long as there's even the faintest hope of maybe one day scamming someone, every last human being is 100% jwz.

06:31:39BingoBoingo:"This city is highly dependent on sales tax, and where a business will be operating under a conditional use permit due to parking and traffic considerations, we feel it reasonable that it pays a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes)," City Administrator Bob Shelton said. "The medical service fees are not taxable but when the practices sell items, sales tax is involved."

06:32:59BingoBoingo:;;later tell asciilifeform How do you handle an overloaded dosimeter? I've just kind of been ignoring it but the burns and nausea are piling up.

07:00:47BingoBoingo:joecool: With the anticipated spam attacks ideally you will want to bolt the Ophanage amputation and thermonuke modifications to whatever you choose. Also make sure you fix the BDB locks problem in your chose codebase. Anything post 0.3.21 and pre 0.8 should be fine. If you don't have particular things you fuss over 0.5.4'stator/rotor' is probably as close to idea as you will come

10:56:33punkman:"By downloading and/or executing the Ideal Reserve Clearinghouse application, you agree to the following terms: You will not attempt to reverse engineer the Ideal Reserve Clearinghouse application."

12:49:56punkman:"The problem is staggering. According to a White House report, one in five women (20 percent) is sexually assaulted in college. Around 5 percent of men report being sexually assaulted on campus as well."

13:04:12mats:>2012 saw the training ship ARA Libertad seized in Ghana on the orders of a hedge fund seeking reparations from the Argentinian government. Shortly afterward, the corvette ARA Espora was stranded in South Africa for seventy-three days after the German company hired to repair a mechanical fault refused to carry out the work as a result of the Argentine

14:15:56asciilifeform:'We describe three new occurrences of the sexual coercion of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) by Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. These recurrent observations follow a common pattern where the seal chases, captures and mounts the penguin, followed by copulation attempts. These observations are similar to a previously published observation from the same island, and we suggest th

15:10:40assbot:Is there a video with a panel discussion about the block size BIPs, fork drama, etc.? Is there demand for one? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1U4R59J )

15:16:17chetty:whats with everything has to be a video? reading is a lost art?

15:19:42BingoBoingo:Not even wrong: "However, the question of whether miners and pools will support that increase in the form of XT, a fork of Bitcoin Core, remains. It currently has 13.7% of bitcoin's hashing power behind it." << https://archive.is/41s4u

17:01:25ascii_field:'There is nothing illegal that the government there is not into. The government is smart if you just go there as an American you will not be bothered. I lived in the jungles where I was the only white person, and they were on to me. They asked me for $2M, weeks later 40+ armed men stormed my house, shot my favorite dog, and held me in the sun with my hands tied. The next day the congressman came and apoligized and asked

17:01:25ascii_field:for the $2M again. I should have done that rather than tell him to get the fuck off my property.'

17:09:55ascii_field:'There's going to be a shitload of stuff going down. The hacker said they were going to release. If it were me, I'd had come clean immediately to my wife. I had a TS clearance at Lockheed, and you have no idea what questions they asked. "Have you ever fucked a sheep?". When the OPM hack happened, I wrote an article where I came clean to everything.'

17:30:05mircea_popescu:"Late Friday, the Twitter feed for Rhino Security, the consultancy run by the project?s creator Ben Caudill, announced that Caudill?s talk was being pulled from the DefCon line-up, and that the ProxyHam project was being called off. ?Effective immediately, we are halting further dev on #proxyham and will not be releasing any further details or source for the device,? the message read. ?Existing #proxyham unit

17:30:05mircea_popescu:s will be disposed of and no longer be made available at [DefCon]?"

17:31:00mats:proxyham can be built by a teenager with a day of research

17:32:07mats:>The old arts of spying has really disappeared, my favorite is Android, for ease-of-use. The first thing I do is root it with towelroot to remove update capabilities, then remove bloatware, then unroot it of course.

17:37:21ascii_field:it is even possible for both hypotheses to be true simultaneously

17:37:33ascii_field:(two separate departments of muppetronics. as in tor.)

17:38:00mircea_popescu:i have nfi who these guys are, they didn't have the modicum of a clue to make contact or anything. for all i know the whole thing's an orchestrated attempt to shore up the notion that anyone still gives a shit about the usg inside the us.

18:18:30*:mircea_popescu chuckles at the thought of some [not so ?] distant time in the future when various derps will discover that "nobody could have predicted" they had a lengthy record of shit to answer for in the logs.

18:18:34danielpbarron:btw I got stator to build with the rotor toolkit and it is currently syncing and up to 153k blocks

18:20:55mircea_popescu:ascii_field the motherboard article you linked says "satoshi" exactly once, ands that is to claim "and Satoshi showed with some basic calculations that hardware improvements were very likely to outpace Bitcoin growth for decades into the future."

18:21:10mircea_popescu:somehow they never heard about more recent events.

18:23:38assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 15:19:42; BingoBoingo: Not even wrong: "However, the question of whether miners and pools will support that increase in the form of XT, a fork of Bitcoin Core, remains. It currently has 13.7% of bitcoin's hashing power behind it." << https://archive.is/41s4u

18:24:32mircea_popescu:i have no idea why patent nonsense read by fewer people than are involved in writing it keeps somehow creeping into the conversation. but this sort of masochism of the intellectual is both ridiculous and overplayed already.

18:29:13mircea_popescu:I had a TS clearance at Lockheed, and you have no idea what questions they asked. "Have you ever fucked a sheep?" << to which the only acceptable answer is, "does your mother count".

18:40:59ascii_field:mircea_popescu: was digging for traces of sanity in there

18:41:18ascii_field:mircea_popescu: but easier to get uranium from the sea.

18:44:02ascii_field:mircea_popescu: i confess, began reading this crud linked from bci's www, where i looked for block guts

18:44:22ascii_field:mircea_popescu: but have, i think, eaten all that i can stomach.

18:46:15phf:i use to like vice do's&don't's, they were mean and funny. i always thought vice was magazine version of the whole terry richardson, merlin bronques "glam trash" photography, but that was still cool in 2004-2006. i guess it would make sense that they would be faux edgy tech articles, no better or worse then any other online rag, but i can't get over the image of hipsters on heroin writing that shit

20:47:12assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 18:46:15; phf: i use to like vice do's&don't's, they were mean and funny. i always thought vice was magazine version of the whole terry richardson, merlin bronques "glam trash" photography, but that was still cool in 2004-2006. i guess it would make sense that they would be faux edgy tech articles, no better or worse then any other online rag, but i can't get over the image of hipsters on heroin writing that shit

20:56:24cazalla:retail is rightfully dying here, so i guess they think this will shore up the taxes they're losing from that sector.. i am more curious to find out if it'll be applied to steam games and in-game purchases

20:57:40ascii_field:mod6, ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, et al: here is an experiment: change ' print $0 " " o ' in vdiff.sh to ' print $1 " " $2 " " o '. this results in timestamp amputation. the patches work fine, except that gnupatch is no longer aware of preexisting files and will happily create the same file twice, if so run, glomming on top of itself.

20:58:27ascii_field:but the resulting vpatches work, when applied with conventional gnupatch

20:58:42ascii_field:for both from-vacuum creation of files (as in 'genesis') and the later patches.

21:04:08ascii_field:'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidence inc

21:04:08ascii_field:ludes now-deleted entries in his browser history, along with certain videos.

21:04:08ascii_field:Matanov isn’t the first person to be sentenced under such circumstances.'

21:07:18assbot:Logged on 26-07-2014 18:48:15; asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms.

21:44:12mircea_popescu:thin priviledge is hanging out with friends, pointing out that i'd be more sensible to not give citizenship to children of fat people than to children of illegal immingrants, and not offending anyone.

21:49:40pete_dushenski:ascii_field as it happens, i've been doing just that.

21:49:40mircea_popescu:i kept meaning to do a statement explaining the major importance of that thing but i didn't really find my words with the deed.

21:49:47mircea_popescu:ima try to a signing statement once i put it to the ml

21:50:23mircea_popescu:speaking of which, who wants to hold my retarded hand while i do that again ? i forget, what do i do, send an email with the plaintext as body and the detached sigfile as attachment ?

21:51:28mod6:<+pete_dushenski> really, if this wasn't obvious to mod6, ppl like hanbot and i have no chance << this probably should have been obvious to me. but sometimes, hard to see the forest through all of the trees. i've been looking at the compare diff a lot lately, and forgot that /all/ is contained in the genesis.diff.

21:51:29ascii_field:mircea_popescu: third, if the second exists - a detached .sig for it

21:54:50danielpbarron:i noticed today that you don't need to rename the files in order for them to verify; you can sha1sum and gpg --verify the downloaded attachments as they come, and go straight to extracting the tar afterwards

21:55:13ascii_field:both vdiffs and sigs (the former by virtue of having one or more of the latter matching) are immediately attributable to an l1 pubkey

21:55:49ascii_field:and, for the first time ever in history of versionatrons, you can take a tree of unknown constitution and determine what patch set it corresponds to (if any)

21:55:50mircea_popescu:incidentally, i'd like to remind the esteemed readership, especially those people who would like to make their non-stem degrees useful to the future of this world, that http://fraudsters.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/ is still open. a significant amout of work has already been put in, help me reward it by completing the task.

22:29:42ascii_field:'For the first time in the century or so of history of this particular human endeavour, text was deliberately structured with due consideration given not only to its meaning, but also to its source, and to its context. Prior attempts at structuring software, at first consisting of a naive approach focused on meaning only, over time added a half-hearted consideration of context, very unequally and rather haphazardly. The

22:29:42ascii_field:change the V-genesis introduced is exactly like the move from understanding and controlling movement in terms of mass and somewhat velocity, such as it occurs in the mind of a monkey throwing rocks, to understanding and controlling movement in terms of mass, impulse and energy, such as it occurs in the launching of satellites. The proposition that there is still room for improvement in the endless march of human thought,

22:29:42ascii_field:on this topic as on any other, is absolutely indubitable. The proposition that the sum total of what came before can be compared with this particular advance is strictly ridiculous.' << mega-summary, quoted here for logz readers

22:35:53mod6:<+mircea_popescu> yeah, mod you have teh honor. << thanks. I've confirmed that what I get from genesis.vpatch out of thin air is the same manifest as `bitcoin-0.5.3-no-crud.sha256.manifest`.

23:04:57assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 18:46:15; phf: i use to like vice do's&don't's, they were mean and funny. i always thought vice was magazine version of the whole terry richardson, merlin bronques "glam trash" photography, but that was still cool in 2004-2006. i guess it would make sense that they would be faux edgy tech articles, no better or worse then any other online rag, but i can't get over the image of hipsters on heroin writing that shit

23:05:53assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 19:01:28; trinque: and I think I'll continue to just make all the decisions rather than offer options, and then describe how one might proceed from there on their own, if they so desire

23:11:44assbot:Logged on 21-08-2015 20:57:09; cazalla: "We are going to have taxation officials travel around the world visiting these companies asking them to register for GST purposes," federal Treasurer Joe Hockey said.

23:21:00mircea_popescu:"Welcome, kiddo, to how the real world works. You go ahead and place your crazy protest bids way off in the bottom of the sociological order book and scream that someday, SOMEDAY, the market will come down to meet you, and you will be vindicated.

23:21:00mircea_popescu:The rest of us who actually make shit happen in the front lines of consensus back on planet earth will continue to be unaffected by your efforts apart from their modest value as chuckle fuel over beers and sushi."